Zoneminder - Logitech Pro 4000

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hbr
Posts: 5
Joined: Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:29 pm

Zoneminder - Logitech Pro 4000

Post by hbr »

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After my complaint in May about ZM,
continued on my own and after trial and error within the linux environment (learned a lot),
Zoneminder is working in following environment:

Redhat 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL
Logitech Pro 4000 - USB
Pentium III 665 MHz


based on following steps:

1. recompiling the kernel to make the driver available,
2. downloaded and installed xawtv,
3. installed mysql
4. downloaded zoneminder
5. configured the zm database based on zmschema.sql (based on zm instructions)
6. installed cambozola (download/unpack/ant)
7. checked camera with xawtv
8. zmu -d <device_no> -q -v
9. started zm with the minimum config
10. received the webcam output in the zoneminder web page.
11. selected authentication - logon & password
12. zm runs.


tried to read everything in advance,

ZM runs in Monitor mode (simple in the beginning) running with high bandwidth,
to learn )and enjoy) the zm basics.

appreciate your guidance for following ZM questions:

1. zm runs from my point of view correctly : streaming with 10 FPS,
(the camera limit is 30FPS mentioned on the box)
however if i bring an object before the camera it takes seconds before
this is shown as picture on the web, also the object is still shown as picture
although already removed a few seconds before.

I assume that this behaviour is related with the setup of the zm,
what zm setup param is nescessary so that a real time view is provided ?

2. when zm is started with : still
no still (or single) screen is shown it is a full white area.
Is it correct to expect a single (static) screen without dynamic behaviour ?

Thank you already in advance
Looking forward to your reply.

BR
Hugo.
:lol:
kulla
Posts: 4
Joined: Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:51 pm

Re: Zoneminder - Logitech Pro 4000

Post by kulla »

Hi all,

I would like to confirm that Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 is working properly.

Linux SuSe 9.0
Logitech Pro 4000 - USB x 2
Pentium 4 - 1.6 GHz

Steps that I have preformed are:

1. Installation of SuSe 9.0 with apache, php, mysql, Perl, xawtv
2. Install new kernel from SuSe 9.1 and sources for it
3. Downloaded pcw and pcxw patches and applied them to kernel source
4. Make menuconfig and enable those modules, you must first turn on option broken in code maturity options that will enable you to see these drivers in USB section
5. Install zm and cambozola
6. Configured zm database
7. Checked camera with xawtv
8. Started zm with minimum config
9. Configured 2 cameras, channel is 0, device format = pal and capture palette = YUV420P
10. Enable authentication

Voila.
julien
Posts: 12
Joined: Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:07 am

Hi

Post by julien »

Hi all,

Quickcam pro 4000 works very well with zoneminder.

Do you know how to increace the FPS, cos i usally get 10 FPS? so the quality not very exceptable.

Many thanks

Julien
jameswilson
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Joined: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:07 pm
Location: Midlands UK

Post by jameswilson »

How much more than 10fps do you want? As its probably a USB 1.1 i would think the highest it could hit (theory) is 15 fps. I have only once gone over 10fps on any system i have setup
James Wilson

Disclaimer: The above is pure theory and may work on a good day with the wind behind it. etc etc.
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